Daily Archives: June 2, 2016

Senate Democrats are three times more likely to follow science-related Twitter accounts than their Republican peers Does human activity drive global climate change? For members of Congress, the answer often depends on party affiliation. In general, Republicans say “nay,” Democrats “yea.” A research team led by Brian Helmuthprofessor in the College of Science and the…

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Green Entrepreneur Elon Musk has claimed that it is almost certain that we all live in a Matrix style computer simulation. But there is a vital piece missing from his conjecture. Now, 40 years later we have photorealistic, 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously, and it’s getting better…

Guest essay by Eric Worrall A study published in the Journal of Hymenoptera finds that Australian bee populations expanded with the end of the last ice age, then plateaued around 6000 years ago. The small carpenter bees, genus Ceratina, are highly diverse, globally distributed, and comprise the sole genus in the tribe Ceratinini. Despite the…

By Viv Forbes with help from volunteer reviewers, and Steve Hunter, Cartoonist. When man first appeared on Earth he had no implements, no clothes, no farms, no mineral fuels, no machines and no electricity – his only tools were his brains, hands and muscles. Everything that enables humans to live comfortably in a world where…

I’ve previously discussed how some of the recent changes to wordpress code on wordpress.com where we are hosted have cause a bunch of trouble for me, including image cache problems, inverted moderation issues with banned word lists, disappearing comments etc. Yesterday, I was alerted to a new problem by WUWT reader “Saul from Montreal” in…

While some emails were released previously here, due to a glitch in my system, I didn’t get a second file link posted that I should have. Many of the emails in this file have already been released previously and discussed here at WUWT. But to make sure we have not missed anything, here is the…

From The Washington Times and the “your friendly local California thought police” comes this travesty. A landmark California bill gaining steam would make it illegal to engage in climate-change dissent, clearing the way for lawsuits against fossil-fuel companies, think-tanks and others that have “deceived or misled the public on the risks of climate change.” The…

New system surpasses efficiency of photosynthesis The days of drilling into the ground in the search for fuel may be numbered, because if Daniel Nocera has his way, it’ll just be a matter of looking for sunny skies. Nocera, the Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy at Harvard University, and Pamela Silver, the Elliott T. and…

Scientists directly measure thermal conductivity of iron at planetary core conditions for the first time The earth’s magnetic field has been existing for at least 3.4 billion years thanks to the low heat conduction capability of iron in the planet’s core. This is the result of the first direct measurement of the thermal conductivity of…

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